Cruising farther south than I’ve ever been
Antarctica remains elusive for me as a travel destination, but I’m getting closer. On my Celebrity Century cruise in Australia and New Zealand – from Sydney to Auckland with stops on the way – the ship rounded the bottom of New Zealand, East Southeast of Stewart Island. Our southern-most point was at the geographic coordinates reading of 47.2 degrees latitude, 169 degrees longitude. I know this because I asked the Century’s navigator, Georgios Bourboutzoglou. I told him …